Artist roams streets at night turning strangers' parked cars into absurd DIY supercars
- This artist roamed the streets of Amsterdam in 2015 to do secret art
- He turned strangers’ parked cars into absurd DIY supercars overnight
- The project was used to celebrate spontaneity and creativity
Published on Apr 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM (UTC+4)
by Daisy Edwards
Last updated on Apr 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Tom Wood
This artist gained quite a reputation for roaming the streets at night and turning strangers’ parked cars into absurd DIY supercars.
The artist decided to find standard everyday vehicles and transform them overnight using tape and cardboard to make them more fun and creative.
Max Siedentopf is a Berlin-based artist who started the impromptu, unauthorized ‘Slapdash Supercars’ art exhibition to celebrate spontaneous creativity.
Imagine waking up for work to find that your daily driver became a supercar overnight, albeit made of cardboard – it would be sure to put a smile on your face.
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The artist has been turning cars into absurd DIY supercars
You wake up in Amsterdam in 2015 and you rush outside because you’re late to work, when you get to your little Volkswagen, you find that overnight your car has been turned into a hilarious DIY supercar.
Max Siedentopf, a German-Namibian artist went viral in 2015 for his absurd temporary art exhibit where he roamed the streets at night and used tape and cardboard to turn strangers’ parked cars into supercars.
The surprise makeovers were unauthorized, temporary and silly, prioritizing creativity and spontaneity over standardization and intensive forward planning.
The supercars turn back into daily drivers at midnight
Like a bargain basement fairy godmother, Max would operate under the cover of darkness and we don’t know if the original cars would be back to normal in the morning.
He seemed to revel in the temporariness of the exhibit and we’re sure the car owners appreciated the fact that it was only tape and cardboard so the changes could happen without causing any lasting damage to their cars.
Max also used his temporary supercar sculptures to take a playful swipe at the decline of car customization.
At the end of the day, the childlike creativity and silliness that inspired this project made it a fun exhibit for everyone to enjoy, including hopefully the car owners who gained a new supercar overnight.
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Daisy Edwards is a Content Writer at supercarblondie.com. Daisy has more than five years’ experience as a qualified journalist, having graduated with a History and Journalism degree from Goldsmiths, University of London and a dissertation in vintage electric vehicles. Daisy specializes in writing about cars, EVs, tech and luxury lifestyle. When she's not writing, she's at a country music concert or working on one of her many unfinished craft projects.
